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<p>This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, edge computing, and AI. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.</p>
<p>Your role will be to help us provide easy-to-deploy, secure, and customizable edge AI solutions, specifically focusing on Inference Snaps. You will work on designing and implementing silicon-optimized application packages for AI/ML inference, targeting devices from embedded systems to powerful gateways. Linux will be at the core of your everyday challenges.</p>
<p>In our team we value collaboration, peer reviews, good integration/unit testing, and writing maintainable code. General knowledge and experience with Linux as a developer platform is required. </p>
<h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Collaborate proactively with a distributed team</li>
<li>Develop and maintain open-source AI/ML inference application packages</li>
<li>Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them</li>
<li>Review code produced by upstream and/or other engineers at Canonical</li>
<li>Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions</li>
<li>Experiment with Ubuntu Core and showcase industry-grade Edge AI solutions</li>
<li>Secure deployment of AI inference platforms on Linux</li>
<li>Build optimized AI solutions for local inferencing on Ubuntu</li>
<li>Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Proven track record of at least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++.</li>
<li>Experience working on and developing applications for Linux</li>
<li>You have interest and experience with a few of the following:</li>
<ul>
<li>Containers (docker, kubernetes)</li>
<li>Snap, debian, or RPM packaging</li>
<li>Bash scripting</li>
<li>CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc)</li>
<li>Local AI/ML inference frameworks</li>
<li>Hardware accelerators: GPU, NPU</li>
</ul>
<li>You value soft skills, communication and advocacy, and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated</li>
<li>You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world’s best free software platform. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.</em></p>
<p><em>We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your </em><a href="https://canonical.com/careers/diversity/identity"><em>identity</em></a><em>, we will give your application fair consideration.</em></p>
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